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How to use ferny in a sentence

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Like all the other baneberries, the ferny leaves are a pleasure from spring to autumn.
On the other hand, a planting that combines large, tropical-looking leaves with fine-textured, ferny foliage will have pizzazz.
Its fine, ferny foliage smells of aniseed when crushed, and the panicles of seed heads last through until the autumn when the finches will eat them.
A narrow scramble, no wider than a sheep track, edged over the heaps of waste rock towards a larch wood within a ferny, stone wall.
Corydalis, the wall weed with ferny leaves and yellow flowers, is a case in point.
In a cooler month, I would have liked to explore the ferny valley of the Fossa delle Felci, and to trek into the mountains.
Among the designs are geometrics, florals and works that suggest world travel, like Côte d'Azur, the ferny pattern on the book cover.
This enchanted forest, primeval, mossy, ferny and once realm of countless giants is the set of this story, all about owls.
Use the ferny leaves on a sandwich in place of lettuce, mix them with other salad greens, steep them in white-wine vinegar, or bruise them and add them to a wine spritzer.
The plant has ferny, pinnately or ternately decompound leaves and produces compound umbels with small white or pinkish flowers that are attractive to bees.
Come September, attractive ferny foliage is a backdrop to yellow, lemon-peel flowers, which mix with fascinating tousled seed heads as the flowers drop.
It was gullied now and overgrown with weeds, and the road, the street, the almost avenue of last spring had vanished under a ferny green carpet of three-foot honey-locust saplings.
The ferny stems can provide a wispy lime-green backdrop to mounded flowers like lavatera and gaillardia, or an airy foreground to the broad, glossy leaves of holly bushes.
Ralph had stopped smiling and was pointing into the lagoon. Something creamy lay among the ferny weeds.
She and I are both members of the New York Fern Society, and e-mails are constantly flying from one member to another about unexpected ferny discoveries.
We'll walk over the spring fields and through those ferny old woods.
If they can rise up from a carpet of ajuga or through the ferny, bronze foliage of Anthriscus sylvestris '''' Raven''''s Wing'''', so much the better.
There is dicentra 'Spring Morning', with ferny foliage and delightful pendulous flowers, which I wanted as much for sentimental value as anything else.
Examples from Classical Literature
Yes, over the surface of the water radiated a ferny, splintery film, which was ice.
Herds of deer were nipping the short grass, browsing the lower spray of the ashes, or couching amid the ferny hollows.
I was the first to reach it, which I did by scrambling down the ferny bank.
A boy pushed the bracken and ferny grey and green wattle sprays from before a lichen-grown wooden cross.
Deep ravines run down on either hand through green, ferny sheep-walks, dotted with innumerable sheep.
The intense stillness was broken only by the leap of maska-longe on the distant bars and the rubbing of elbows in the ferny brake.
They paused for noonday lunch in a grove of ferny trees beyond the plain, then scaled some rough lava-like rocks.
The plants are dainty, no more than about 8 inches high, with leaves that have a ferny texture and bright green color.
And then, all of a sudden, a little way up the ferny grassy hillside, I caught sight of the end of a book half hidden among the ferns.
He pulled away with swift defiant strokes, and Anne went up the steep, ferny little path under the maples.
The rich green ferny leaves of the chaerophyllum hide a multitude of sins before and after the allium's climax.
And we were cool in our ferny bower, out of the strong hot sunshine.
This side was pretty, too, though there were no rocks nor ferny coves.
We all sat down on the ferny slopes and p. 169waited and listened.
When bruised its resinous glands give out a pleasing, ferny odor.
It's a very pretty plant for the herbaceous border as well with umbels of white flowers and ferny foliage.
We sat on the ferny bank of the pool and ate of the generous basket Aunt Janet had provided, with appetites sharpened by the keen spring air and our wilderness rovings.
Evans, of Ferny Brown Road, Woodchurch, had one previous conviction for battery.
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